Any benefit or detriment from removing a pagefile on an 8GB RAM machine?SSD reads are fast, but memory reads are faster. Pagefile lets you put what's frequently in use, into memory for speedier access. SSD does help on bringing old paged-out stuff back into RAM, which is clearly a good thing. But if SSD were a clean replacement for RAM, then we'd be phasing RAM out and going SSD entirely, right? See this e7 blog entry with some stats that help dispel the idea that pagefile will wear out an SSD: goo.gl/Q4nI